Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases

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CLASS IV DIVISION II SECTION II. MODES OF COMMUNICATION


525. Manifestation -- N. {ant.

526. Latency. Implication -- N. {ant.

527. Information -- N. information, enlightenment, acquaintance, knowledge &c 490; publicity &c 531; data &c 467.

527a. Correction [Correct an error of information; distinguish from correcting a flaw or misbehavior] -- N. correction.

528. Concealment -- N. concealment; hiding &c v.; occultation, mystification.

529. Disclosure -- N. disclosure; retection † ; unveiling &c v.; deterration † , revealment, revelation; exposition, exposure; expose; whole truth; telltale &c (news) 532.

530. Ambush [Means of concealment]. -- N. camouflage; mimicry; hiding place; secret place, secret drawer; recess, hold, holes and corners; closet, crypt, adytum † , abditory † , oubliette.

531. Publication -- N. publication; public announcement &c 527; promulgation, propagation, proclamation, pronunziamento [It] ; circulation, indiction † , edition; hue and cry.

532. News -- N. news; information &c 527; piece of news [Fr.] , budget of news, budget of information; intelligence, tidings.

533. Secret -- N. secret; dead secret, profound secret; arcanum † , mystery; latency &c 526; Asian mystery † ; sealed book, secrets of the prison house; le desous des cartes [Fr.] .

534. Messenger -- N. messenger, envoy, emissary, legate; nuncio, internuncio † ; ambassador &c (diplomatist) 758.

535. Affirmation -- N. affirmance, affirmation; statement, allegation, assertion, predication, declaration, word, averment; confirmation.

536. Negation -- N. negation, abnegation; denial; disavowal, disclaimer; abjuration; contradiction, contravention; recusation [Law] , protest; recusancy &c (dissent) 489; flat contradiction, emphatic contradiction, emphatic denial, dementi [Lat.] .

537. Teaching -- N. teaching &c v.; instruction; edification; education; tuition; tutorage, tutelage; direction, guidance; opsimathy † .

538. Misteaching -- N. misteaching † , misinformaton, misintelligence † , misguidance, misdirection, mispersuasion † , misinstruction † , misleading &c v.; perversion, false teaching; sophistry &c 477; college of Laputa; the blind leading the blind.

539. Learning -- N. learning; acquisition of knowledge &c 490, acquisition of skill &c 698; acquirement, attainment; edification, scholarship, erudition; acquired knowledge, lore, wide information; self-instruction; study, reading, perusal; inquiry &c 451.

540. Teacher -- N. teacher, trainer, instructor, institutor, master, tutor, director, Corypheus, dry nurse, coach, grinder, crammer, don; governor, bear leader; governess, duenna [Sp.] ; disciplinarian.

541. Learner -- N. learner, scholar, student, pupil; apprentice, prentice † , journeyman; articled clerk; beginner, tyro, amateur, rank amateur; abecedarian, alphabetarian † ; alumnus, eleve [Fr.] .

542. School -- N. school, academy, university, alma mater, college, seminary, Lyceum; institute, institution; palaestra, Gymnasium, class, seminar.

543. Veracity -- N. veracity; truthfulness, frankness, &c adj.; truth, sincerity, candor, unreserve † , honesty, fidelity; plain dealing, bona fides [Lat.] ; love of truth; probity &c 939; ingenuousness &c (artlessness) 703.

544. Falsehood -- N. falsehood, falseness; falsity, falsification; deception &c 545; untruth &c 546; guile; lying &c 454; untruth &c 546; guile; lying &c v.. misrepresentation; mendacity, perjury, false swearing; forgery, invention, fabrication; subreption † ; covin † .

545. Deception -- N. deception; falseness &c 544; untruth &c 546; imposition, imposture; fraud, deceit, guile; fraudulence, fraudulency † ; covin † ; knavery &c (cunning) 702; misrepresentation &c (falsehood) 544; bluff; straw-bail, straw bid [U.S.] ; spoof [Slang] .

546. Untruth -- N. untruth, falsehood, lie, story, thing that is not, fib, bounce, crammer, taradiddle † , whopper; jhuth † .

547. Dupe -- N. dupe, gull, gudgeon, gobemouche † , cull [Slang] , cully † , victim, pigeon, April fool † ; jay [Slang] , sucker [Slang] ; laughingstock &c 857; Cyclops, simple Simon, flat; greenhorn; fool &c 501; puppet, cat's paw.

548. Deceiver -- N. deceiver &c (deceive) &c 545; dissembler, hypocrite; sophist, Pharisee, Jesuit, Mawworm † , Pecksniff, Joseph Surface, Tartufe † , Janus; serpent, snake in the grass, cockatrice, Judas, wolf in sheep's clothing; jilt; shuffler † , stool pigeon.

549. Exaggeration -- N. exaggeration; expansion &c 194; hyperbole, stretch, strain, coloring; high coloring, caricature, caricatura † ; extravagance &c (nonsense) 497; Baron Munchausen; men in buckram, yarn, fringe, embroidery, traveler's tale; fish story, gooseberry [Slang] .